Now the rainman gave me two cures,;
Then he said, "Jump right in.";
The one was Texas medicine,;
The other was just railroad gin.
You don't need a weather man;
To know which way the wind blows
Because something is happening here;
But you don't know what it is;
Do you, Mister Jones?
The way is long but the end is near, Already the fiesta has begun
Your temperature's too hot for taming
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in;
Sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks
For all eternity I think I will remember;
That icy wind that's howling in your eye.
Won't you descend from the throne, from where you sit?
You should be made;
To wear earphones
What looks large from a distance,;
Close up ain't never that big.
It was then that I got up to leave;
But she said, "Don't forget,;
Everybody must give something back;
For something they get."
Three fellas crawlin' on their way back to work,;
Nobody stops to ask why.
There was music in the cafes at night;
And revolution in the air.
May you have a strong foundation;
When the winds of changes shift
I still got my voice left, I can take it anywhere I go
Twenty years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift
My children will go, As soon as they grow.;
Well, there ain't nothing here now to hold them.
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,;
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss.
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
Everybody's wearing a disguise;
To hide what they've got left behind their eyes
I'll remember you;
When the wind blows through the piney wood.
And, when I was through;
I filled up my shoe;
And brought it to you.
As the last fire truck from hell;
Goes rolling by, all good people are praying
The sun's not yellow it's chicken
Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.
All the people we used to know;
Are an illusion to me now
You say you love me;
And you're thinkin' of me,;
But you know you could be wrong.
Always on the outside of whatever side there was,;
When they asked him why it had to be that way, "Well," he answered, "just because."
You speak to me;
In sign language;
As I'm eating a sandwich
I've been hit too hard, I've seen too much;
Nothing can heal me now, but your touch
All I really want to do,;
Is, baby, be friends with you.
But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
You could make me cry if you don't know.
All right, I'll take a chance, I will fall in love with you
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,;
All the pigeons gonna run to him.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
I stood unwound beneath the skies;
And clouds unbound by laws.
It was true that in his later years he would not carry a gun;
"I'm around too many children," he'd say, "they should never know of one."
She once was a true love of mine
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through
She was born in spring, but I was born too late
Well, it's always been my nature to take chances;
My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances
Where black is the color, where none is the number
If you get close to her, kiss her once for me
Go melt back into the night, babe,;
Everything inside is made of stone.;
There's nothing in here moving, An' anyway I'm not alone.
I'm in the streets;
With the tombstone blues
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Don't you know there's nothing new that's under the sun?;
Well, there ain't no man righteous, no not one.
I'm walking through streets that are dead
Have you got some unfinished business?;
Is there something holding you back?;
Are you thinking for yourself;
Or are you following the pack?
False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin,;
Only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin' in.
Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line,;
Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.
Gonna sleep down in the parlor;
And relive my dreams
Has the record been breaking,;
Did the needle just skip
All he believes are his eyes, And his eyes, they just tell him lies